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SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I ... ALAN PARSONS DANIEL DAY-LEWIS MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON I didn't think meanness was ever in anyone's destiny. Meanness was a choice. LIESL SHURTLIFF She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only ... JEANE WESTIN Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and ... JAKE LAMOTTA VERONICA ROTH NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourse... JENNIFER LOUDEN ELBERT HUBBARD Mankind shouldn't be afraid of artificial intelligence. It is inevitable that one day it will become... ELECTROJIT We can go mad whenever we like. We can leave our minds behind and play in the garden at night. The g... J.J. VLADIMIR These are gems from a world that no longer exists -- except in our imaginations. 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I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in ... JOSEPH MOBUTO LAURA KREITZER OTTO WEININGER RICHELLE MEAD A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing... CATHERINE ANDERSON CHARLES MACKAY PLATO The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member o... CALVIN TRILLIN I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I... EMMANUELLE BEART EVA GREEN ETHEL MERMAN ARNOLD BENNETT Today I felt sick at the start from being nervous. It's been a while since I got sick from being ner... MARCO BUECHEL ERIC CANTONA CORETTA SCOTT KING There is no cowardice in removing yourself from a wildly unhealthy and unwinnable situation . . . Yo... SCAACHI KOUL She was crying. There were tears coming down her cheeks. She spoke no English, except 'I miss my mom... CINDY MORGAN Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil pi... WINSLOW HOMER PATRICIA MCCORMICK AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO DAVID LIVINGSTONE KAHLIL GIBRAN ELBERT HUBBARD CHRIS BRADFORD When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to g... DAG HAMMARSKJöLD LUC DE CLAPIERS MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather. VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE CHARLES SUMNER CHARLES SUMNER LORD BYRON They got a call from a prison higher up, not a chaplain. I have probably made 30 calls and all I am ... BILL GRAHAM People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self. FAKEER ISHAVARDAS ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content my... TERRY GROSS ANDY RICHTER BHAGAVAD GITA OCTAVIA BUTLER OCTAVIA E. BUTLER I never could tell anything, except the smell from the creek. BILL WALLACE Would I expect anything different from the Bush administration? No. They will cook the books for wha... MICHAEL FRANCIS GAYLE FORMAN JOSEPH ADDISON I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult,... DIRK BENEDICT NATSUKI TAKAYA I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising. BENJAMIN HENRY DAY BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CHUCK PALAHNIUK KAHLIL GIBRAN KAHLIL GIBRAN ALBERT CAMUS I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ... IAN RANKIN
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JACK LAYTON The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the depa... JACK LAYTON There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairn... JACK LAYTON Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. JACK LAYTON Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic abou... JACK LAYTON My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So... JACK LAYTON A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and ... JACK LAYTON We raise the prospect here that New Zealand has already fallen into a recession. BRENT LAYTON When they do return, there is the positive effect of training and ideas and so forth. BRENT LAYTON The results of this QSBO survey suggest the economy is presently in the throes of a potential acute ... BRENT LAYTON With the Reserve Bank raising interest rates and the currency being high for some time, the pressure... BRENT LAYTON Migration has slowed appreciably since 2003 and the residential construction market has caught up wi... BRENT LAYTON But people also form expectations in other ways - from their order book and information in the marke... BRENT LAYTON We both came out of San Bernardino (Calif.) so they kind of knew each other from there and they're f... LAYTON ALIVIADO He closed his eyes and just swung. He got the good part of the bat on it, and it was a deep shot. LAYTON ALIVIADO We knew we were in for a game. It's elimination time. But when the home run came, it kind of gave us... LAYTON ALIVIADO It's elimination time and we were kind of tight. When the home run came it gave us a relief. That te... LAYTON ALIVIADO When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding pr... LAYTON ALIVIADO You could hear it off the bat. LAYTON ALIVIADO I have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are a... LAYTON ALIVIADO California is a tough team and it was a tough few innings, but I think we just got lucky. We started... LAYTON ALIVIADO I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out and take and n... LAYTON ALIVIADO He is just an awesome pitcher. He can really pitch ... the velocity he has, mixing his pitches. His ... LAYTON ALIVIADO My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So... JACK LAYTON If you want a progressive (member of Parliament), a New Democrat, one who will fight for change, the... JACK LAYTON If there is a government in Ottawa that doesn't share their values there is a possibility they could... JACK LAYTON When will the prime minister finally stand up and tell George Bush Canadians have had enough with hi... JACK LAYTON There is a culture in the Liberal party that is unacceptable in a democracy, JACK LAYTON This avoids the holiday election that nobody wants, JACK LAYTON the only leader in this House that will not compromise. JACK LAYTON That would be a confidence vote by definition, ... I can tell you where we're going to stand on that... JACK LAYTON The Liberal party has been in power throughout this entire scandalous affair. And Mr. Martin, to my ... JACK LAYTON They need a new community on higher ground, JACK LAYTON That doesn't seem right to me. Canadians paid for this. JACK LAYTON We effectively have a monopoly in the sector, a very small number of very large companies that are s... JACK LAYTON but unfortunately the Liberals said no. JACK LAYTON As a result of the stubbornness of the Liberals and the inflexibility that we've seen, we will be st... JACK LAYTON Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats. JACK LAYTON You don't have to choose, on the one hand, a party that you really don't respect because they haven'... JACK LAYTON This election is wide open because Canadians have a real, a positive and a progressive choice: the o... JACK LAYTON I suggested a research project would be required and I guess we're in that research project. There a... JACK LAYTON When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card. New Democrats will not stand... JACK LAYTON I think it's shocking a lot of Canadians that after an election that was supposed to be about ethica... JACK LAYTON We're encouraged that Mr. Harper appears to have taken some of our concerns into account. If Mr. Har... JACK LAYTON This is not a budget that the New Democratic Party will be able to support. JACK LAYTON They have to be dragged kicking and screaming and protesting into accepting that anything wrong coul... JACK LAYTON This Parliament's life is likely limited. JACK LAYTON Unfortunately it has become clear that Paul Martin and his team are not cut from the same cloth as L... JACK LAYTON Every member of Parliament has been sent there by Canadians, and that decision should be respected, ... JACK LAYTON When you bring good ideas forward in the context of a Parliament where no one party has been given t... JACK LAYTON It's not fair that prices have risen so quickly -- so rapidly -- because the product that is for sal... JACK LAYTON Bono is no longer supporting the prime minister's position...niether are canadians. JACK LAYTON We seem to have reached a serious and fundamental impasse, JACK LAYTON What we need to do is stand up for ourselves when we're unfairly treated. JACK LAYTON How can this Parliament continue under the leadership of a Liberal Party whose ethical conduct voter... JACK LAYTON I think Paul Martin doesn't mean what he says. He said he would clear this sort of thing up and he d... JACK LAYTON The report has shown there is a culture of greed in the Liberal Party, JACK LAYTON There's going to be real change that comes from the people of this country who are tired of being pl... JACK LAYTON Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. JACK LAYTON I don't want to go into the secrets of how we do it. MARK LAYTON Companies need to refresh their disaster plans, their continuity plans, because of the particular ch... MARK LAYTON The company deeply regrets the fact that civic movements are misleading the Mongolian public by misr... LAYTON CROFT I told these guys go out and have fun and do the same thing you've been doing from San Bernardino to... LAYTON ALIVIADO According to FBI statistics, false accusations of rape are no more common than for other crimes.DORIS LAYTON MACKENZIE IRVING PENN I love the gym; I love basketball. I'm really passionate about it. 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IRVING HARPER With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if ... IRVING HARPER IRVING FISHER IRVING BERLIN IRVING BERLIN IRVING BERLIN IRVING BERLIN IRVING BERLIN IRVING BERLIN IRVING BERLIN The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. IRVING BABBITT Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. IRVING BABBITT The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself... IRVING BABBITT To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficul... IRVING BABBITT The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. IRVING BABBITT If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing ... 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Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delu... 
Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delu... 
Mankind have angels and devils, this thing is called balance! 
There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the d... 
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe... 
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to bel... 
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Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have
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I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more... 
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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really ins... 
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really in... 
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. 
in a great show of self-control, I stopped myself from telling him to fuck off. 
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient... 
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There is no failure except in no longer trying. 
There is no failure except in no longer trying. 
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather. 
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather. 
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. 
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind 
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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there ... 
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